About IMMIDD
The goal of the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD) is the interdisciplinary modeling and application of relevant infection dynamical questions with the highest scientific standards.
The center thus forms a socio-technical interface between computer-aided modeling and health policy decision-making. It combines knowledge, expertise and perspectives from different scientific areas with the aim of developing models, methods and socio-technical systems. We place a particular focus on research into the psychosocial, social and economic interactions of epidemics and strategies for epidemic control, for which we aim to contribute.
With this center, we hope to establish long-term collaboration between interdisciplinary research structures at the University of Münster and in Germany, while also creating the basis for the broader application of the modeling approaches developed in direct coordination with public health decision makers.
The center will work closely with other infrastructures at the university and will be expanded as an important contact point for advising the public health authorities. In coordination with the National Research Platform for Zoonoses and other institutions, issues relating to the animal/human and human/animal/environment interfaces will also be analysed for the first time in a One Health perspective.